Supporting high availability by checkpointing and switching to a backup upon failure of a primary has a cost. Trade-off studies help system architects to decide whether higher ava...
RDF (core Semantic Web standard) is not originally appropriate for context representation, because of its initial focus on the ordinary Web resources, such as web pages, files, dat...
Sergiy Nikitin, Vagan Y. Terziyan, Yaroslav Tsaruk...
Multimedia delivery systems, such as Content Distribution Networks (CDNs), improve by knowing the geographic location of their clients. Therefore, we focus on a measurement-based g...
Bamba Gueye, Artur Ziviani, Serge Fdida, Jos&eacut...
— Quality of Service (QoS) is an area with high academic curiosity. Our long-term goal is to develop a unified mathematical model. This paper is a first step towards this ambit...
The idea of using user preferences to assist with information filtering and with providing the most “relevant” answers to queries has recently received some attention from th...